Geylang Claypot Rice 芽笼砂煲饭

Hearty, authentic pot of rice that would be even better during winter. Got the burnt rice portion too. Portion was slightly smaller than expected. 2 young male adults can share 1 pot when they're suggesting 2-3 to share. Great service. Great discounts for birthday month as well. Nice canto music vibe.

Affordable local zichar fare in a casual eatery located about 10 min walk from Nicoll Highway station. Claypot chicken rice was indeed the star. Very generous with the portions though vegetables were sorely lacking. Staff were helpful enough to help mix the rice upon serving. Didn’t need to wait 30 mins as initially stated. Another dish I enjoyed was the Nyonya steamed fish. Very smooth, chunky, boneless slices of fish meat in a pungent sauce. Moonlight horfun was also good. Duck with lotus root didn’t impress and was quite bland. Also if you have a preference for which part of the duck you want, you gotta state it upfront upon ordering. Service staff will not ask. If you don’t state any preference, they will by default serve the wing and upper part of the duck to you instead of the leg area. Service standards vary. We encountered a pretty curt waitress who took our order and another waitress who was really good with customers. No water served in glasses FOC / for a small charge. You’re forced to order bottled water if you want to drink plain water.

Was expecting a coffeeshop setting but it was very much a modern cafe setup! Nice place, almost instagrammable. Decent claypot rice even though we had takeaways. Chunks of tender chicken pieces. Enjoyed the salted egg yolk soft shell crab - its not on the menu (so you gotta check with the friendly staffs!)

Collaboration with godmama and Geylang claypot rice. Very good claypot rice with wok hey, lots of chicken meat. Wing bean salad so refreshing. Tofu and prawn is fresh. Mango sago and the sticky date pudding is nice with ice cream. Drank stout with the Friendly Chef. Will be back with my family for dinner!

I’ve passed by this restaurant a number of times and finally decided to give it a try. The food leaned on the salty side. The only dish I found somewhat enjoyable was the traditional handmade crab meat and prawn roll—but even then, $11.80++ for six pieces felt rather steep. Portions overall seemed small. The coffee pork ribs came with just six pieces for $16.80++, and every pieces is so small, just about the size of my two finger in width (picture attached) and the barramundi fish dish was mostly tofu skin with only a few pieces of actual fish. The signature ink sotong braised noodles were also underwhelming—$16.80 for noodles with four sotong balls and little else, lacking flavor and substance. We didn’t finish our meal as the dishes were too salty, and by the end, we still left unsatisfied. Conclusion: With these prices and portions, I believe I can find a far better meal elsewhere. Sadly, I don’t see myself returning.

Good service, nice claypot rice and fried Kai Lan, and simple quiet ambience. Reasonably priced and good portion.

A place that serves great tasting food with efficient service, just that the ambience isn't some place you would go for a hot date. 😅 That being said, it's a great place to bring your friends and family to eat, chit-chat and have a good time together. Damage for our order was about $45/pax (3 peeps) with pics for reference. Do note that you will need to give them time to prepare your claypot rice, so I would recommend that you either call in advance or just be prepared to wait a fair bit.

We went here ard 1.30pm then the server rushed us to order because the kitchen closing. Then they at closing 2.30pm..... so we just sat down and started looking at the menu then the server came to rushed us again. So we just ordered 1 claypot rice. And guess what. It came within 5 mins and the claypot rice wasn't HOT!!!!! 🙄 why. 1st time to come here to try yet this kinda attitude and very bad. The tea also not nice. Will not support again. The rice is very hard very very hard dry and not hot. Its not up to our expectations...